Monet's Water Lilies as a 50 × 50 cm fine art poster, unframed, shown flat against a light grey wall

Claude Monet – Water Lilies, 1906 | Giclée Print

50 × 50 cm / 19.7 × 19.7 in — Reduced, 0.45× original
CHF 59.00
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Monet's Water Lilies as a 50 × 50 cm fine art poster, unframed, shown flat against a light grey wall
  • Monet's Water Lilies as a 50 × 50 cm fine art poster, unframed, shown flat against a light grey wall
  • Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1906 — the canvas reproduced whole: the surface of the pond at Giverny with lily pads in bands and the shadow of the far trees across the upper third
  • Monet's Water Lilies as a 70 × 70 cm giclée print, unframed, hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard
  • Detail at print size: pink and white lily blossoms laid on in thick strokes over the reflected sky
  • Monet's Water Lilies as a 50 × 50 cm fine art poster, unframed, shown flat against a light grey wall
  • Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1906 — the canvas reproduced whole: the surface of the pond at Giverny with lily pads in bands and the shadow of the far trees across the upper third
  • Monet's Water Lilies as a 70 × 70 cm giclée print, unframed, hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard
  • Detail at print size: pink and white lily blossoms laid on in thick strokes over the reflected sky
Claude Monet – Water Lilies, 1906 | Giclée Print

Claude Monet – Water Lilies, 1906 | Giclée Print

CHF 59.00
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By 1906 Monet had been painting the water garden at Giverny for a decade, and he had taken away almost everything a landscape usually gives you. There is no bank, no horizon, no sky except as reflection. The canvas is the surface of the pond seen from above, with the lily pads laid across it in bands and the sky and willows arriving from underneath. A shadow falls across the upper third — the trees on the far side, present only as darkness on the water.

This canvas belongs to the group Monet showed at Durand-Ruel in 1909 under the title Les Nymphéas, série de paysages d'eau. He had been working on them for years and repeatedly refused to release them. What he was after was not the pond but the light on it at one hour, and the difficulty was that the hour kept moving.

What this is. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks from the Art Institute of Chicago's own open-access photograph of the canvas. It is not a painting and is not sold as one.

Scale
Original: 89.9 × 94.1 cm / 35.4 × 37.0 in — oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago
70 × 70 cm / 27.6 × 27.6 in — reduced, 0.62× original. Image 58.80 × 56.48 cm.
50 × 50 cm / 19.7 × 19.7 in — reduced, 0.45× original. Image 42.00 × 40.34 cm.

Why there is no original size here. Everywhere else in this shop the first size is the size of the object in the museum — a woodblock sheet, a drawing, a photogram. A canvas is a different case: we do not have paper that wide, and a painting is not a sheet. So both sizes are reductions, and we say by how much rather than leaving you to guess. The canvas is very nearly square, which is why both sheets are square instead of forcing the picture into a rectangle.

The canvas is reproduced whole, edge to edge. Nothing is cropped.

Provenance
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), Water Lilies, 1906; oil on canvas, 89.9 × 94.1 cm.
Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, Acc. No. 1933.1157.
Public domain. The museum publishes its photograph under CC0.

The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The colour of the museum's file is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.

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